The value of a newspaper / journalism outlet is its wide distribution. He famously said to a (probably many) politicians "you can have headlines praising you, or you can have a bucket of shit in your doorstep each morning"
The more paywalls he erects (wsj, the times, and now fox) the smaller his distribution and the less value.
It's not the end of the world now, but there is a value in say the Democratic Party funding it's own free newspaper
The value of a newspaper / journalism outlet is its wide distribution. He famously said to a (probably many) politicians "you can have headlines praising you, or you can have a bucket of shit in your doorstep each morning"
The more paywalls he erects (wsj, the times, and now fox) the smaller his distribution and the less value.
It's not the end of the world now, but there is a value in say the Democratic Party funding it's own free newspaper